Jim Wilson

So after a sociable day celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee what do you do for a meal...

Sunday was an enjoyable, if wet, day but time marched on and it was too late to even think about Sunday roast and two veg.

So we turned to that other traditional British meal... the Chinese takeaway.

And we decided to sample one with a traditional name.

The Bamboo Garden conjures up images of far-flung beauty.

Like a High Street and a Red Lion is there a Bamboo Garden takeaway in every town in Queen Elizabeth’s kingdom?

The one in Sheffield is on Hutcliffe Wood Road, just off Abbey Lane.

Cafés and restaurants come and go on this little parade of shops but the Bamboo Garden is a fixture.

There were a few of us so we decided to order several meals and share – which Liz would probably have approved of on her ‘sharing with the nation’ day.

Starters of spring rolls were crisp and tasty without being fatty and proved universally popular.

With the main courses the five of us had different ideas on best and also-rans – after all food is a matter of opinion – but we all agreed that, taken as a whole, they were very good.

The deep fried chicken in lemon sauce was tangy without turning your face inside out, the chicken chow mein was tasty with fine noodles, the beef and mixed veg in oyster sauce was nicely varied and the special fried rice had lots of bits of chicken, pork and prawns in. And the egg fried rice was, well, very egg fried ricey.